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The Skeletons, 1750. Etching on heavy ivory laid paper.
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · Image: 38.9 × 54.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Skeletons
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian, 1720-1778
- Date
- 1750
- Medium
- Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 38.9 × 54.2 cm (15 3/8 × 21 3/8 in.); Plate: 39.3 × 54.7 cm (15 1/2 × 21 9/16 in.); Sheet: 59 × 80.7 cm (23 1/4 × 31 13/16 in.)
- Credit line
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1720–1778
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.